Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1917 — Imports From Britain Increase. [ARTICLE]

Imports From Britain Increase.

We once heard ,of a Hebrew prizefighter, whose “nome de poing’ had a decidedly Hibernian tang, who between the 10th and 11th round of a middleweight championship fight sold a block of real estate to a man seated at the ringside. He had nothing on old J. Bull. During the 11 months ended November last, our imports from the United Kingdom totaled $280,000,000, or nearly $37,000,009 greater than for the 11 months ended November, 1913, nine of which were under the republican tariff law. True, cousin John 'had the /Wilson-Under-wood tariff-for-less-than-revtenue law at his back, but df he chn carry on a world war which costs him $28,000,000 a day, an-J which calls for 6,000,000 men, and still increase his sales to us by over 13 per cent under the democratic law, what do you suppose he can do in our market when his hundreds of "thousands of workmen, fit and trig, have returned to the mills, their number supplemented by nearly a million woman workers " Only the other day an English firm was able to outbid our own shell manufacturers on projectiles for the U. S. Navy, principally on account of the wide disparity between the wage scales here and in England. And yet the democratic party continues to paw over the dump in search of a little additional revenue from tea, coffee and rubber, without a thought of the revenue to ibe derived from protective rates on -manufactures or farm products. They will never wake up. The republican party will have to turn the trick.